SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) _ Michelle Obama took a break recently from the campaign trail to get her hands messy breading shrimp as she helped prepare a deep-fried dinner with the Food Network's first lady of Southern cooking, Paula Deen.

The wife of Democrat Barack Obama got cozy with Deen in the kitchen during a recent taping of the Savannah celebrity cook's TV show "Paula's Party," scheduled to air on the cable network Sept. 20.

Michelle Obama and Deen swapped stories about their families' favorite meals as they cooked fried shrimp and french fries at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., where the network converted a cafeteria into a TV kitchen.

"She was getting her hands dirty," Deen said in an interview Friday. "I think they are like us  they like real food, not a bunch of prissy food."

Obama told Deen her husband's personal favorite is a steaming bowl of chili, and the first meal she ever cooked for him was a seafood gumbo. Deen, one of the Food Network's biggest stars, traveled to Norfolk for the taping three weeks ago.

Gee, Michelle makes time to get on a cooking show...wonder if she made sure to give them her strict rules of what NOT to talk about......AND isn’t it amazing Michelle Obama has time to cook but NO TIME to go to the 9/11 event!!!!!

Paula Dean is overrated anyway. She takes your heart-clogging comfort food recipe and then makes it even more heart-clogging purely for the shock value. She does not care about the taste at all--just about shocking you.

Paula Dean is overrated anyway. She takes your heart-clogging comfort food recipe and then makes it even more heart-clogging purely for the shock value. She does not care about the taste at all--just about shocking you.

Not showing up to the 9/11 ceremony to be with her children
was a shot at Palin.

I disagree. That was the EXCUSE that the Presidencial Candidates wife, Michelle Obama, used for NOT showing up with her husband at the 9/11 event, although the Republican candidate and his wife was there.

Fried chicken is only racist if you serve it with watermelon.
Honestly I heard somone say that you couldn’t serve watermelon at a BBQ fundraising event because the addition of watermelon would be perceived as racist.

She doesn't feel proud of her country on any day. The Obama camp has relegated her to cooking shows and “fluff” to keep the voters from asking her questions she won't answer and to keep her from blowing it for them. I hope through the internet we can remind America of her NOT showing up for the 9/11 event, because of her kids, and now able to leave her kids to travel to Savannah, to Indiana.....It needs to be constantly reminded that she is anti-America!!!

Obama told Deen her husband's personal favorite is a steaming bowl of chili, and the first meal she ever cooked for him was a seafood gumbo.

I don't believe her story. On the remote chance that she's telling the truth, I'd bet that her seafood gumbo sucks. The dish is supposed to have shellfish like crabs, shrimp, and oysters. I don't think there's much of that in the middle of the country. Maybe she used Rocky Mountain oysters...

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